Rotating disk cutting-machine.



L. ANSGHEL.

ROTATING DISK OUTTINGMACHINE. APPLICATION PILED.SEPT.10, 1909.

Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

- llnvarfl'm Wiiness as LEO ANS-(HEEL, JOEDOBTMUND, GERMaivYQ ROTATING nIsK Corrine-M CHINE;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I;' Lno Axscniit, engineer, a subject of the German Emperor, and residing at Dortmund, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rotating Disk Cutting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The known disk cutting machines with r tating circular cutter for cutting meat and the like, have the disadvantage, that, the meat will be easily jammed when reaching the cutter blade.- Various devices and arrangements have been designed for obviating this difiiculty. So the cutter blade has been made with a conical, or spherical sur face or has been placed with its axis at an angle to the direction of feed of the stuff.

, Similarly it has been attempted to give the meat a curved line of feed and the cutter has been in such instance arranged tangent ally to the feed curve.- However all these dev ces .are more or less complicated and do not allow of an effective simplification of the disk cutting machine,'as is necessary for its gen- .eral introduction.

The present invention refers: to the solution of this, difiiculty, to avoid the stuflf being jammed at the cutter surface and the braking action caused thereby on the rotation of the blade, and consists in a loosely revolving disk being arranged 'flush within the annular cutter blade.- The stuff will thus after having been out reach the inside loose disk after having passed the annular cutter proper, and the loose inside disk will thereby be stopped while the outside annularcutter can continue its rotation undisturbed. Asv now the stuff will reach the loose diskwith a onesided pressure owing tothe onesided guide the disk will obtain a speed of its own corresponding to the rate of feed whereby the friction between the stuff and the loose disk will be greatly reduced, so much the more, as independently of the direction of rotation of the cutter, the rotation of the loose disk will be reversed on the stuff being withdrawn. This desi of the cutter blade,

with an outer cutting, edge and an inside face against the cutting edge'and back again on to the said stationary surface; As, in

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these machines it is necessary to feed the,

stuff along a stationary guide or fence in or- -.der to avoid its being carried away by the revolving cutter, the stuff .can be brought with a certain one sided pressure on to the inside loose disk and be returned on the lat? ter with very small torsional force to the originalposition on the guide table. Here thus the return of the stuff iseffected without reversing the rotation of the inside disk.

In the accompanying drawing a mode of carrying out the invention is exemplified in application to a disk cutter machine of the simplest type.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a plan view.

In the box shaped frame a the table 0 is arranged vertically adjustable and provided with side fences or guides I). Said table a is raised and lowered by means of the set screws f sliding on the ways cl and moved to and fro by means of the lever e. Such vertical adjustment is necessary for obtaining various thicknesses of cut, the thickness of which maybe gaged by means of a division or disk-g will be carried along with it owing to the slight friction between the two, so that the disk 9 will not grind against the cutter,

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as would be possible owing to the yery small play allowable between them, neither will the disk q vibrate or sing in consequence of such grinding. When however apiece of meat, saya ham, is moved as shown in the drawing at r from the stationary table 0 along the fence or guide 6 over the cutter 2', the slice cut oil' will fall down below and the ham will reach the disk 9, on which it will rest, while the annular cutter i may freel continue its rotation. Thus a braking e feet on tliedrive or the cutter is avoided, and besidesany. possible vibrations, and a consequent singing of disk 9 by grinding the maximum size of stuff to be cut on the machine, generally however only small hy Letters 'Pat- I pieces are'ent, the stuff will in the most in- I claim and'desire to secure stances reacl the d sk q 1 tl1 a one sirled -gentf the United State 1s: pressuie, gwuig tdf the one-.sulejrl gmfleb. In a ineat icilthng machlne the combina- If now the stuff 1 is gifitled on along the 5 tion'wit-ha' rotating annular cutter having.

5 beading of the guard f covering the (gutter an outer cutting eclge-of-a'cntral disk being 2' in the same (li'lectioml'it' will without any lo0f-tely."pivoted- 011' the cutter and arrangedexerti'on he returned 1 by the; disk 11 back t9 flush vith thesnrfacc of thedatte r,substanthe table I; and delivered liei'cnf' The hancl'of-E tiallyas -get fortl t l' ie .bperatqrfgnigling the-stuff has thus a In testimoiiy whereof,-I afiix'myslgnatlu'e ti v be :iIi-iitl and -letmnetl in a straight 7 T line; fnitthern dre.thestuff isiless s'evei ely i; I sGHEIi' s] treated hy thesdisktq, as the latter eausesj \Vitnesses'; =lnerely a slightftm'simi.

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